First of all, nobody is comparing Barack Obama to Jesus but conservatives. Second of all, they have no place to poke fun at Barack Obama's personality cult considering that because of them, we're now discussing which presidential candidates are most Reagan-like.

Okay, seriously, wtf is going on with that blackboard behind him? How does that not just scream crazy to anyone who happens to look at it? Seriously, I had a friend who went to art school; dipping bobbleheads in urine doesn't even move the needle but that blackboard is creepy.

Jack Mackbell:First of all, nobody is comparing Barack Obama to Jesus but conservatives. Second of all, they have no place to poke fun at Barack Obama's personality cult considering that because of them, we're now discussing which presidential candidates are most Reagan-like.

I would add that Piss Christ has nothing to do with Christ the person, but that kind of subtlety doesn't translate well to everyone.

Jack Mackbell:First of all, nobody is comparing Barack Obama to Jesus but conservatives. Second of all, they have no place to poke fun at Barack Obama's personality cult considering that because of them, we're now discussing which presidential candidates are most Reagan-like.

theknuckler_33:The idea, for Beck however, is not to be untoward, but through irony, to highlight the hypocrisy of those who would shout in defiance at defacing the image of a sitting U.S. president, but not that of an image so sacred to Christianity - the world's largest religion.

Is anyone doing this?

I doubt it. Every Obama supporter I know eagerly looks forward to a new anti-Obama, crazy-ass Jon Naughton painting like a kid waiting for Christmas.

Can some fark artist draw up a picture of Glenn and Mitt stripped down to their magic Mormon underwear while dancing on a stripper pole? In the audience, have a crowd of southern white christian rednecks making it rain with money earmarked for the church? In the Champagne room, have Rush, Pat Robinson and Murdoch peeking out with massive hardons. Sarah Palin and and Ann Culter can be seen sitting in a corner sulking and showing great disdain and jealousy of the two center stag dancers.

sigdiamond2000:Has there been a cultural event in American history that has obsessed the right-wing more than "Piss Christ?"

Seriously, people. It was 25 f*cking years ago and you're still on about it? Is the guy who did it even alive anymore?

For God's sake, let it go.

The artist is still alive and was back in the news in the last couple of months because the pisschrist was back on display in some cities MOMA. Beck was also responding to Jammie Fox who called President Obama "Our Lord and Savior" the other night.Becks planned worked he getting the at the attention he seeks which is why he makes about 6 million dollars a month and we don't.

Phoenix_M:sigdiamond2000: Has there been a cultural event in American history that has obsessed the right-wing more than "Piss Christ?"

Seriously, people. It was 25 f*cking years ago and you're still on about it? Is the guy who did it even alive anymore?

For God's sake, let it go.

The artist is still alive and was back in the news in the last couple of months because the pisschrist was back on display in some cities MOMA. Beck was also responding to Jammie Fox who called President Obama "Our Lord and Savior" the other night.Becks planned worked he getting the at the attention he seeks which is why he makes about 6 million dollars a month and we don't.

Is it just me, or did it seem pretty obvious that Jamie Foxx was trolling conservatives when he said that? I was pretty sure I saw a smirk on his face as he was saying that.

InmanRoshi:I can't even pay attention to the Piss Christ Obama, because I'm too distracted by the flow chart of crazy on that blackboard. It brings me back to college, when I had a kid in my dorm hall who was beginning to suffer from the effects of schizophrenia and he drew on his dorm room wall exactly like that. Eventually his parents had to come pick him up and institutionalize him.

No kidding. I so want a hi-res version of that black board, so i can figure out where the reverse-vampires come into play.We're through the lookingpiss glass here, people.The man is clearly insane and I don't see his parents coming to institutionalize him.

Corvus:Remember how when Bush was president Republicans kept saying how everyone should respect Bush and be nice to him even if they didn't agree with his policy to respect the position of the president?

But back then criticizing the president gave aid and comfort to the enemy! Things are completely different now, because socialism.

My parents used to watch Beck when he was on Fox. I told them about the rumors that he raped and killed that girl in 1990.I just gave up when they just said, "well yea, he was an alcoholic, and he changed his life since then".

This is just theater for his moronic audience who assume that liberals will be SOOOOOOOOOOO offended by this... primarily because they would. The whole is classic conservative projection.

"Liberals revere and worship Obama on an almost messianic level and consider him sacred! (they must, because that's how we view our leaders)"

"Oh boy... You go, Glenn! This will really get those liberals' panties in a twist...They're going to be livid at seeing the graven image of their dear leader so brazenly disrespected!!! (because that's how we'd feel if it were Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush or, if he'd been elected, Mitt Romney)"

Hell, the lionizing and glorification of Mitt had already begun when they thought he still had a chance.

skullkrusher:Dansker: skullkrusher: whistleridge: I get the point he thinks he's making, but does he get the point he's actually making? That it's him, not us, making the point that Obama = Jesus?

I think it was Michael D'Antuono who made that point

I think you missed the point of D'Antuono's "The Truth".This is what he meant:[img.photobucket.com image 600x364]

Obama is in 3 D?

Ha ha yeah, but no. I think it's that people see what they want to see. Like when you, out of the many possible interpretations of a painting, saw it as the work of a someone actually comparing Obama to Jesus Christ.

Johnny_Whistle:EnviroDude: robert mapplethorpe should sue him for stealing his idea

Which idea?

Stupid people often confuse Mapplethorpe and Serrano because both were "controversial" artists at about the same time in the 1980s. The fact that so many of those stupid people are still shrieking, 25 years later, about Mapplethorpe putting a crucifix into urine just shows how stupid those stupid people are.